Neposlednie slova : rechi obviniaemykh i politzakliuchennykh  Not the Last Words: Speeches of the Accused and Political Prisoners 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2508340B

  Author(s)

  Miloverdova, Mariia

  City

  Washington DC 

  Country

  United States 

  Language

  Russian 

  ISBN

  9781447666318 

  Date of Publication

  2023 

  Publisher

  Freedom Letters  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  296 

  Series

  Freedom Letters 16

  Ne uboius' zla 16

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Politics

  Subject

  Émigré Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Миловердова, Мария

  Publisher

  Freedom Letters  

• Description

  Not the Last Words: Speeches of the Accused and Political Prisoners In modern Russia, perhaps the only place where free speech still sounds is a cage in the courtroom. From it, the defendants address their last word, using this one opportunity to state the most important thing. To condemn war, not to give in to fear, to resist lies and violence, to support others. The last words are more than a political declaration, more than a testament to personal courage. It is they who create the most poignant portrait of the era. Our collection "Not the Last Words" is the voice of the free people of an unfree country. “No one can take away my inner freedom. She lives in the word, she will live thanks to publicity, when it will be read and heard by thousands of people. This freedom is already continuing with every caring person who hears us in this country,” Maria Alyokhina said in 2012 at the Pussy Riot trial. — I believe that it is honesty and openness, the thirst for truth that will make us all a little freer. We will see it." And the more the space of freedom shrinks, the more precious and weighty is every last word that breaks through the wall of silence. They are our medicine against fear, giving hope for healing.